From my experience there are 2 ways people got into Ruby. 1. By learning Ruby Don't mind how old the guide is. Ruby is still Ruby, sure plenty of things are b

From my experience there are 2 ways people got into Ruby. 1. By learning Ruby Don't mind how old the guide is. Ruby is still Ruby, sure plenty of things are better now but the old syntax is still supported and used. I don't see an issue with learning from poignants guide today as I did back then. You should be able to run 99% of all tutorial examples without modifications in a modern ruby interpreter. 2. Headstarting into Rails Just start building CRUD apps after any recent tutorial. Video or text whatever you prefer. Ruby is shining trough and after some time you'll learn what's Ruby, what's Rails and what is just you.